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ANIMAL LIFE IN AFRICA 



and northern Mozambique. Indeed the only recorded 

 herd is one on the Loangwa River, probably recent 

 immigrants from the north. 



Giraffes are fond of rather dry and fairly open country. 

 They are never found in the strictly forest regions of the 



GIRAFFE DRINKING 



continent. They are purely browsers, and are especially 

 fond of the leaves of certain thorn acacias, notably the 

 kameel dorn. They are generally seen associated in 

 troops of from three or four, up to twenty individuals, 

 and, as with other wild animals, old males frequently 

 wander alone. In drinking (which in a well-watered 

 country they do regularly), giraffes straddle out their 



